Time to visit places that are a little closer to home

As this trip continues through the United States, it was a lot of National Park jumping which are places even though living a good portion of my life in the states, I have never visited (except Grand Canyon).

As we entered Montana from Canada the drive was simply amazing!!!!

We then got to the world famous Yellowstone National Park, and it was more impressive than the photos I have seen. Seeing Old Faithful Geyser is obviously the biggest attraction at the Park and it did not disappoint at all

The other geysers and landscape colors were equally as impressive. From rolling hills of grass to majestic waterfalls, this land has it all!!!!!

Lets also not forget the abundance of wildlife at Yellowstone. Although I was not able to get photos of any bears, we did see a few of them, and even one with two cubs.

Next stop after Yellow Stone was Grand Tetons NP. This majestic park boasted some very beautiful peaks with the blue sky in the distance.

Of course the highlight of the National Park was a small lake on a side trail with a few different Moose feeding on the grass under the water.

We then moved down south into Utah and stayed near to the Great Salt Lake in a camping spot named Antelope Island. The views were spectacular with a few animals and birds popping up around.

As we head south in the sweltering heat, we next reach Zion National Park and took some beautiful strolls among the massive cliffs.

The highlight here was of course the deer coming by our camp to eat in the morning as we were leaving…

A few hours down the road from Zion NP we got into Bryce Canyon with some of the strangest formations I have ever seen. They are awe inspiring to look at and even pictures do not do it justice with the vastness of the formations…

Arches National Park was our next stop and has some of the most unusual formations. We went to different sites around there to see some of the most popular formations and had some amazing photos.

As we moved down into more national parks we hit Monument Valley made famous in many old west movies as well as Antelope Canyon with some interesting formations as we moved very carefully with our Navajo guide through the canyon admiring the formations for a few hours.

Headed down south into Arizona, we hit Horse Shoe Bend which carves a beautiful shape into Glen Canyon which would get us ready for Grand Canyon….

Grand Canyon would be our last stop in the United States and it was the hottest Arizona has been in a long time. I remember going there as a kid to some of the same areas. The Grand Canyon again did not disappoint as the Colorado River has cut some of the most beautiful scenery as it zigzags through the Canyon…..

Going into Mexico through Phoenix (118 degrees that day) we ran into a spectacular storm off in the distance with some beautiful rain and clouds as we bush camped a few hours before the border